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Three brothers join the Royal Flying Corps
Combat in the air was still a novelty when Canada went to war in Aug 1914. It started with a need for improved reconnaissance and quickly escalated into aerial confrontations to prevent an army’s movements being discovered from the sky, as happened to the Germans at Mons, an event that is credited with helping prevent the encirclement of Paris and initiating the static trench war that followed.
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Malvern man won Croix de Guerre in 1918
This article, written for the Central Ontario Branch Western Front Association, features Malvern graduate Charles Frank Szammers.
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Malvern Collegiate Institute Archival Collection
We are proud to have a very comprehensive collection of materials pertaining to the history of Malvern Collegiate Institute. It is housed in the Archives Room on the second floor of the school.
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MRBS Veterans Historian speaks about Vimy at local history meetings
MRBS member David Fuller spoke to the Beach & East Toronto Historical Society on April 11, 2017 about the 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge and the Malvern men who were involved.
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Malvern students launch petition for new elevator to make school accessible
If you agree that Malvern needs an elevator, please go to the link below and support the petition to make Malvern and accessible school.
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Using the Malvern Archives for Canadian History Inquiry
To introduce my Grade 10 Canadian history students to the process of inquiry and “doing history,” I take them down to the Archives Room. Students investigate the various sources: old Muses, newspaper accounts, usually articles NOT about Malvern, but on the back of a story about a football game, or a former alumnus/a. Students are required to select artifacts that took place between 1945 and 1982.
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Vimy Centenary and the veterans of Malvern
In the Centenary of the First World War being marked between 2014 and 2018, no date will be more talked about than April 9, 1917, the day Canadian troops successfully attacked a seven-kilometre stretch of Northern France known as Vimy Ridge. Apart from the fact that upwards of 25,000 people are expected to travel to the memorial that now stands there on the 100th anniversary of the battle, it is also one of the most remembered dates in Canada’s 150-year history, including here in The Beach, home to the hundreds of local men who fought in the battle.
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MRBS Minutes – March 2017
Malvern Red & Black Society Executive Committee March 7, 2017, 7pm Archives Room, Malvern C.I.
